Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson is a veteran of the games world. As a student he founded the first UK board games club, at Keele University. On moving to London his games career began as a reviewer for ‘Games & Puzzles’ magazine, the world’s first professional magazine devoted to games and puzzles.

Together with his old school chum and gaming buddy Ian Livingstone, the pair founded Games Workshop and went on to create the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series.

In the 1990s he was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. His weekly Games Page included game reviews, features on the history of games, news and puzzles.

In 1996 Steve co-founded Lionhead Studios with legendary PC game designer Peter Molyneux. Lionhead developed Black & White and Fable.

Apart from Fighting Fantasy, his game designs include 'The Warlock of Firetop Mountain' boardgame, 'Battlecards' (a collectible card game series which pre-dated Magic: The Gathering!) and 'F.I.S.T.', the first ever interactive telephone game.

More recently he spent 8 years as Professor of Games Design at Brunel University.